204 The Ottawa Naturalist. [January 



REVIEW. 



Summary Report of the Geological Survey for 

 THE Calendar Year 1907, pp. 132. 



This report, as usual, records the additions that have leen 

 made to the Geological Museum during the year. These include 

 a large number of mineral specimens and fossils collected chiefly 

 by members of the staff. Mr. Spreadborough, who collected on 

 Vancouver Island during part of the summer, sent in skins of 

 94 mammals and 172 birds, and in a few weeks Mr. Harold Tufts 

 collected 171 skins of birds and mammals in Nova Scotia. From 

 the Ottawa region two interesting specimens were secured, one 

 an albino Virginian deer, from North Wakefield, the other a l)lack 

 chipmunk from Kingsmere. The museum staff, in anticipation 

 of the completion of the new Victoria Museum, is collecting 

 material for exhibition there and Prof. Macoun reports that in 

 addition to the mounted specimens in the museum, 2,302 bird 

 skins and 1,106 skins of mammals are stored in air-tight boxes- 

 and unless for purposes of comparison will not be disturbed until 

 needed for the new Museum. Mr. Spreadborough is in the field 

 this winter hunting and trapping large mammals. Of the 

 mammal skins now stored away, 439 are of large mammals and 

 667 of small ones, sufficient material in itself to inake a very 

 creditable showing. Over 72,000 sheets of flowering plants in 

 the herbarium have been catalogued and numbered. A collec- 

 tion of woods on a large scale was commenced last summer and 

 trunks of 41 species of trees were secured. A series of tree 

 photographs was begun at the same time, forty .species being 

 photographed. These photographs will be a permanent record 

 of our forest trees and the condition of the forests at the present 

 time. As is the case with all reports issued now bv the Geological 

 Survey, a verv complete and carefullv prepared index closes the 

 volume. 



THE NATURALIST WRONGLY PAGED. 



For some unexplained reason the paging of the last number 

 of The Naturalist was changed by the printer. The October 

 number ended with page 120, but the November number begins 

 with page 153. The error was not noticed by the Editor until 

 after the November issue was distributed, and nothing can now 

 be done to rectifv it. Pages 121-152 inclusive will be missing 

 from Vol. XXL 



